You are going to love this. It’s free, so we love it already, right? The download is quick and safe, because it’s from Download.com. If you’re not familiar with Download.com or Cnet.com, it’s a clearinghouse for all the best downloads, and is hands down the safest place to download ANYTHING from. Download.com actually deserves it’s own post as a highly recommended site to find all sorts of fun stuff that’s safe to download – but that’s another day.
Show Off.com is an easy place to virtually create the landscape of your dreams. You can use your own photo of your home, or use one of theirs that fits your home’s basic shape and terrain. Try different plants, watch them grow, or see what others have done with similar yards. It’s surprisingly easy, and once finished you can upload your design and let others see it, or get bids from local landscapers to have it done! The community section is great to ask questions, get ideas, solve problems, and more.
The best part is all the real life examples that others have uploaded that will give you more ideas than you can imagine. I love gardening and making my yard look nice, but more than once I’ve planted things that just didn’t work. They either grew WAY too big or didn’t grow at all after an entire season of nurturing them.
I have purchased three of the top landscaping programs over the years AND tried several of the online landscaping design programs, and this one is my favorite so far. . . And it’s free!
http://www.bhg.com/gardening/design/nature-lovers/welcome-to-plan-a-garden/
And one more (all are FREE, of course!)
http://www.smallblueprinter.com/garden/planner.html
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we always redo our landscape every 2 or 3 months to adapt to the changing weather..:`
Landscaping is very important in both the business offices and at home. it makes your yard impressive..;-
landscaping is very cool coz you got to rearrange new stuffs on your yard.”;.
it is a bit expensive to have a landscaping these days but it is always necessary to beautify your home”-`
landscaping is my favorite hobby today, i like to decorate our backyard with carpets and stuffs*’`
my father is very good in landscaping and he specializes on carpet layout:’:
The online visualizer at ShowOff.com is not intuitive and very difficult to use. Not a fan.
Try the recently launched version of showoff.com. Now it goes beyond landscaping to painting, remodeling finding contractors and suppliers. Try out various brands and colors of siding roofing, windows and doors,etc. The painting tool is a one of a kind with the ability to see compatible colors to your primary choice.
That’s a great idea. It usually only takes one person to get things started because most people would like to do something like this, they just don’t know how to get started. This could be a great blog post topic! Thanks!
I love your website! I’m getting that mid-winter garden itch….